PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PresentationPoint Announces Signage24

PresentationPoint has launched a new presentation distribution service to schedule and distribute your presentations worldwide. Free accounts are available although paid accounts come with more bells and whistles.

Think of Signage24 as something similar to a web hosting company. Only in this case, they offer hosting and online delivery for your presentations. You’ll also have to install a small player program and configure it before you upload presentations and other linked files. Then you define a playlist of files and schedule when the playlist should be displayed on the Signage24 players.

Visit Signage24 for more information.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Digital Signage, Kurt Dupont, PowerPoint, PresentationPoint

TurningPoint Makes PowerPoint Interactive

Turning Technologies has announced a new Mac-compatible version of its interactive Microsoft PowerPoint software: TurningPoint for Mac offers users an audience response system that creates a fully interactive experience – in the classroom, the lecture hall, the meeting room or even the conference auditorium.

Read more on the MacNN site.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Remotes

Set Office 2004 Zoom Levels

Move the wheel up, and you’ll zoom in; move it down, and you’ll zoom out. The amount the zoom changes with each tick of the scroll wheel varies between the applications. Word seems to go in 10-percent steps; Excel uses 15-percent increments; and PowerPoint steps through the fixed zoom levels.

Rob Griffiths explains more on the MacWorld site.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2004
Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint, Zoom

Focus on PowerFrameworks

PowerFrameworks is a subscription-based website that provides a library of ready-to-customize frameworks, metaphors, and analogies that you can use within your PowerPoint presentations and elsewhere. New frameworks are added frequently.

Once you subscribe, you can access a larger range of frameworks, tutorials, and animated sample presentations.

Read the Indezine review of PowerFrameworks.

Filed Under: Templates
Tagged as: Graphics, PowerFrameworks, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, Review

Liquid Cabaret: Conversation with Colin Adams

Colin Adams is the president and founder of Indigo Rose Software Design Corporation, that creates the Liquid Cabaret collection of music tracks.

Privately held, Indigo Rose develops innovative software products and multimedia authoring tools that are used by thousands of customers around the world. Indigo Rose is headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada.

Geetesh: Tell us more about your Liquid Cabaret collection.

Colin: Liquid Cabaret is a 20-volume collection of unique, royalty-free, background music tracks ideal for use in PowerPoint presentations. Each volume centers on a musical style or theme such as “Instrumental Pop”, “World Journey,” and “70’s Movie Soundtrack.” There’s a really wide variety of styles represented, so you’re sure to find the perfect tracks to accompany your presentation.

Since presentations vary in length and format, so does the music in the Liquid Cabaret collection. Each of the 300 tunes comes in four different lengths, ranging from about 30 seconds to two and half minutes — plus, you have the option to play a track on a continuous loop. Also, all the tracks are available in high-quality MP3 (256k) and OGG (Ogg Vorbis) formats.

All 300 tunes in the Liquid Cabaret collection were written and performed by Montreal-based professional composer, Paul Shrofel. You can purchase any of the volumes in the collection individually or you can get all 20 CDs on a single DVD-ROM at a greatly reduced package price.

Samples of each track are available online at our site and orders may be placed online or through our office at +1 (204) 946-0263.

Geetesh: How well does Liquid Cabaret complement PowerPoint? Also, what’s your favourite track selection for use in a corporate presentation scenario?

Colin: What’s the line? “Say it with music.” We think that a great presentation is enhanced by a great soundtrack. Whether you want to set a mood, match a “theme” or key concept in your presentation, or just add interest and make things more dynamic, music is the way to go.

The Liquid Cabaret collection is the perfect complement to a PowerPoint presentation. First of all, it’s easy to incorporate. You just drag and drop your audio files into your PowerPoint software, and you’re good to go. Second, you have a ton of choices in terms of style and format. There are 300 songs to choose from, so you’re sure to find the tune that matches the tone of your presentation. Plus, each of the songs comes in different lengths and formats so it can be further tailored to your needs. Third, Liquid Cabaret is royalty-free, so you don’t need to go through the hassle of securing permissions or dealing with copyright issues. You just purchase your music, add it to PowerPoint, and then show your presentation to an audience of two or two hundred.

As far as my favorite track selection goes, I think that the tunes in Volume 12 “Instrumental Pop” and Volume 17 “Thinking Positive” are ideal for corporate presentations. The tracks on both volumes have a fresh, upbeat sound that works well as interesting, energizing background music. Having said that, you would probably get a lot of attention in the boardroom by adding tracks from the “70’s Movie Soundtrack” or “Liquid Metal” to your presentation!

The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Audio, Colin Adams, Interviews, Music, PowerPoint, Sound